I’m trying to point a CNAME from my domain to my recently created site. I don’t want to mess with DNS servers because I have other sites hosted.
Whenever I try to point the CNAME I get the following error message:
BTW, my CNAME has propagated fully except by somewhere in Denmark. That is NOT the issue. I insist there is an issue with this feature on 000webhost service!
3 days have passed, this is still not working. It’s clearly not a propagation problem.
I’ll have to try another host, I suppose. I can’t open a ticket either.
Yeah, unfortunately that’s not what I remember reading in the front page. But it’s ok, I understand. It’s just that it’s frustrating. They offer the CNAME feature, they explain how to do so and I can’t find a way to tell them that they have a technical issue.
www.christophermedeiros.com and my domain is with Google.
I just went to dns checker and it is showing that it has propogated correctly everywhere but yet this hosting site continues to give me an error message.
I will try that and thank you for the advice. However, I was following the instructions posted on this site that clearly and with BOLD letters states that the NS are only to be changed if you are parking your site and goes on to say that ‘pointing’ is the prefered method and if you point the site, DO NOT CHANGE the NS.
These are the copied instructions:
Point domain
Requirement is to add CNAME record which points to your website on 000webhost cloud. **Do not change nameservers. You will have full control of your domain DNS zone. Depending on where your domain is currently reg**istered the instructions to set CNAME record may be different. Here is the list of tutorials:
This is really frustrating. Neither the 000webhost gives an option to host my subdomain by configuring to the name servers of my subdomain to 000webhost with Park domain option, nor the configuring CNAME is working with Point domain option. I can’t set name servers of my SLD to 000webhost for the same reasons as pplupo and others have. 000webhost will not provide me complete control of DNS Zone file of my SLD.
Three days and no one from 000webhost is looking whether their services are working fine.
but 000webhost servers are not able to see it and giving the error…
If 000webhost can’t provide the hosting of a subdomain without setting name servers of their Second-Level-Domain, Why is 000webhost showcasing that they provide service like Point Domain with CNAME option?
I feel like I have wasted my time and effort to try services with 000webhost.
Yes, but you had to park your domain here on 000wh. We can’t or don’t want to do that and we should be able to, specially since it’s explicitely written down that we don’t have to.
I’ve restored the original Gandi DNS zone with CNAME for www1 (maybe I should change it to a NS record to delegate the subdomain properly to 000webhost?)
All DNS updates were very fast so I was able to shutdown attached Gandi services for only a few minutes.
Not sure it’s clean/safe. What do you think about it?
Regards,
Rick
P.S. I’ve also created a separate test-170113 to monitor when the CNAME functionnality will be fixed. I’ll delete it when not needed anymore.[/quote]